Leadership effectiveness is related to leadership behavior in two types of situations, cooperative and counteractive. In cooperative situations, participants form an interactive group to solve a problem and usually develop shared goals. The leader decides whether to form a cooperative group, defines participants' level of involvement in…

George Lucas's Star Wars trilogy is used as the basis for the creation of a political subtext arising from one of America's most enduring literary myths--the American Adam. That subtext, when translated into a modern political context, pinpoints two central issues to face this democracy in the coming years, as well as a national ambivalence about…

Time of final vote decision in a national presidential election campaign was explored as the dependent variable in a media effects study conducted earlier as part of the National Election Study of 1980. Political identity, a new measure of partisanship and independence known as the Partisan Supporter Typology, was used as an important contingent…

Analyzed are some of the political problems encountered in conducting evaluations in higher education. An operational university evaluation system which minimizes some of these problems is cited. (Editor)

Explores correlates of legislator voting on educational legislation and the degree to which education issues are unidimensional. Differences in partisan affiliation, constituency, and personal background are examined as major explanatory factors for voting variations. (Author)

The study provides a picture of Norwegian party-union relations today and suggests several observations about the impact of socioeconomic factors on the development of labor's strategy. (MW)

Author suggested that realizing human potential can only be accomplished by calling on all the human race, including women, for its achievement. (Author/RK)

The need for a council on science and technology to advise the President of the United States is explored. The role and functioning of a science advisory committee are discussed, and three proposals offered to the House Science and Astronautics Committee are detailed. (DT)

The effect of subunit power on resource allocation decisions in one university is examined. Measures of departmental power in a university are found to be significantly related to the proportion of the budget received, even after statistically controlling for such universalistic bases of allocation as work load of the department, national rank,…

The purpose of the conference of journalists and social scientists "Covering the '76 Elections: A Dialogue..." was to provide an opportunity to discuss academic research on elections and to expose the social science community to the thinking and concerns of journalists. This monograph contains the conference keynote address by Henry F. Graff; five…

Article discussed the use of television broadcasting with regard to the political process, the legislators involved, and the techniques associated with television presentation. (RK)

Identified as a "transliteration" of J. L. Lafitau's "Les Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquain" (1724), this article offers data on the political structure of the Iroquois government when at its height of power in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (JC)

The article describes the context of Chicano political life, empirically tests the validity of the description through an analysis of Chicano and Anglo voting patterns in El Paso (Texas), and discusses the implications of the findings presented. (NQ)